Line taken in skilful porcelain (5)
I believe the answer is:
delft
'porcelain' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'line taken in skilful' is the wordplay.
'line' becomes 'l' (used when specifying particular lines from a poem).
'taken in' is an insertion indicator.
'skilful' becomes 'deft' (deft means skilful).
'l' going inside 'deft' is 'DELFT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for delft that I've seen before include "Dutch town famous for ceramics" , "Blue and white earthenware (from Holland)" , "Dutch blue and white glazed earthenware" , "A type of earthenware" , "Vermeer's town - earthenware" .)